Travel

The Mattala International Airport will re-open for tourists under a pilot project from today with over 200 Ukrainian tourists expected to arrive here at 2.40 p.m.

Thousands of truckers endured Christmas Eve stranded near a major British port, ensnared in the chaos unleashed by a new coronavirus strain, as Western nations accelerated vaccination programmes.

Sri Lanka suspends flights from United Kingdom starting tomorrow (23). The decision has been taken due to the emergence of a new variant of COVID-19.

The Public Health Inspectors Union yesterday urged authorities to impose immediate travel restrictions for all nine provinces by sealing its borders, warning that if urgent steps are not taken, the repercussions may be seen in January.

Pakistan says it has been assured by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that the abrupt visa ban imposed last month is “temporary in nature” and were imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Despite the pandemic, the Indian Ocean archipelago received its 100,000 th. tourist this month since the tourism sector began to be opened up in July.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday that the cabinet has agreed in principle to allow travel with Australia without quarantine in the first quarter of 2021.

Virgin Galactic is set to carry out a milestone test flight of its rocket-powered tourist plane on Saturday. This will be the first crewed flight of its reusable Unity vehicle to take off from the purpose-built commercial spaceport in New Mexico, US.

Hundreds of passengers on a Royal Caribbean ‘cruise-to-nowhere’ from Singapore were told to stay in their cabins until contact tracing was complete after a COVID-19 case was detected

Grounded airline Jet Airways may be able to resume operations by summer next year if the everything goes as per plan, said its new owners. The airline may start both domestic and international operations with all the slots that were available to Jet Airways before it stopped flying.